Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-14

| lu9 wen Df Jle rOduSluP z bcf he h1Q DegXe0
| for drink Poorl Bora In cno.her mans
barn and eating at anoti4r mans table, and
| cruising the lake in another mans fishing
! smack. and buried in another mans mauso-
| leum. Four inspired authors wrote of his
| biography, and ipnumerable lives of Christ
have been published, but he composed his
autobiography in most compressed way.
lie said: Il have troddel the wine
press alone:n Poor In the estimation
Of nearly all the prosperous classes.
| They called him Sabbath breaker wine
| bibber, traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked
the dictionary of opprobrium from lid to lid
to express their deteStation. / can think now
of only two well to do men who espoused his
cause-Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea
! His friends for the most part were people
! who, in that climate where ophthalmy or in
! Hammation of the eyeball sweeps ever and
! anon as a scourge, had become blind, sick
| people who were anxious to get well, and
| troubled people in whose family there was
some one dead or dying. If he had purse
at all it was empty, or we would have heard
| what was done with the contents at the post
mortem. Poorl The pigeon in the dove cote,
the rabbit in it8 burrow, tle silk worm in it3
! cocoon, the Les in its hive Is better provided
! for better Off, better sheltered. Aye, the
! brute creation has a home On EARTH which
Christ has not
II on windy days the raven
GRmbOl like dancing skif,
Not the less he loves his haven
On the b Isom of the cliff.
II almost with eagle pnlon
Ger the Alps the chamos roam,
Yet he has some small dOmi lion
Which 10 doubt he calls his home.
But the Crown Prince of all heavenly do
minion had less than the raven, less than the
chamois, for he was homeless Aye, in the
| history of the universe there is no other in.
stance of such coming down. Who can count
| the miles from the top of the throne to the
bottom of the cross! Cleopatra, giving a
banquet to Antony, took a pearl worth
! 100000 and dissolved it in vinegar and
swallowed it. But when our Prince, accord
ing to the evangelist, in his last hours took
the vinegar in it had been dissolved all the
pearls OF his heavenly royalty Down until
there was no other depth for him to touch,
troubled until there was no other harass-
ment to suffer, poor until there was no other
pauperism to torture. Billions OF dollars
spent in wars to destroy men, who will fur
nish the statistics of the value Of that pre-
ciouS blood that was shed to save usl "Ys
know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
| that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes
| he became POOR
Only those who study this text in two
places can fully reach its power-the Holy
Land Of Asia Minor and the holy land of
| heaven. How should like some day to take
on Galilee, and read the sermon on the Mount
while standing on Olivet, and see the wilder
ness where Christ was tempted, and be some
afternoon on Calvary at about O'Clock, the
hour at which closed the crucifXion, and
sit under the Sycamores and by the side Of
the brooks, and think and dream and pray
about the poverty OF Him who came our
souls to save. But you and l will probably
be denied that, and so here, in another conti-
nent and in another hemisphere, and in scenes
! as different as possible, we recount as well
as we may how poor our heavenly Prince be-
came. And in the other holy land above we
may all study the riches thar He left behind
when He started for His earthly expedition.
Come, let us bargain to meet each other at
the door of the Fathers mansion, or on the
| bank Of the river just where it rolls from
under the throne OF at the outside gate.
Jesus got the contrast by exchanging that
world for this; we will get it by exchanging
this world for that. There and then you will
understand more Of the wonders of the grace
OF our Lord Jesus Christ who, Though he
was rich, yet for your salIes became poor"
Yes grace, free grace, sovereign grace,
omnipotent grace. Among the thousands of
words of the language there is no more queen
ly word. 1t means free and unmerited kind
ness. My text has no monopoly of the word
One hundred and twenty times does the
| Bible eulogiZe grace 1T is a door swung wide
oren to let into the pardon of God all the
millions who choose to enter it.
John Newton sang of it when he wrote:
Amazing grace, how sweet The sound
That saved wretch like me!
Philip Doddridge put it into hymnology
when he wrote:
Grace! tits charming sound,
Harmonious to the ear;
| Heaven with the hO sh Ill resound
And all the world shall hear.
One of John Bunyans great books is en-
titled Astounding Grace" ut is all of grace
that | am saved has been on the lips of hun
dreds OF dying Christians. The boy Sammy
was right when, being examined for adm:s
sion into church membership, he was asked:
"Whose work was your salvaton.n and he
answered: Part mine and part Gods" Then
the examiner asked: "What part did you do
SammyF' and the answer was 81 opposed
God all could, and he did the rest!" Oh
the height of it, the depth of it, the length Of
it, the breadth of 1.-THE grace Of Coil Mr.
Fletcher having written pamphlet that
pleased the King, the King offered to compen
safe him, AMI Fletcher answered: There i!
only one thing / want, AMI that is more
grace" Yes, my blood bought hearers, grace
to live by, grace to die by. Grace thai
saved the publican, that saved Lydia, thai
saved the dying thief, that saved the jaiier
that saved me. But the riches of that grace
will not be fully understood until heaven
man, who had been a soldier in one Of the
European wars, was sick and dying in onC
Of cur American hospitals. His one desirl
was to see Scotland and his old home
and once again walk the heather oI
the highlands and hear the bagpipe
of the Scotch regiments. The night that tbs
old Scotch soldier died young man, some
what reckless but kindhearte |, got u com
pany of musicians to come and play unlel
the old soldiers window, and among the Ill
struments there was bagpipe. The iustan'
that the musicians began the dying old man
in delirium said: "Whats that2 what's that
why, it's the regiments coming home. That
the tune; yes, that's the tune Thank God,
have got home once more!' "Bonny ScotlanC
and Bonny Doom were the last words he ut
tered as he passed up to the highlands OK TIA,
better country. And there are here to-day
hundreds homesick for heaven; some becau.'
you have so many beTeavemen6s some he
cause you have SO many temptations, som
because you have so many ailments; home
sick, very homesck for the fatherland o
heaven, and the music that you want to hel
now is the song o free grace, and the mu5i
yon want to hear when you die is free grace
and forever before the throne of God yo
will sing Of the ''grace OF or Lord Jesu
Christ, who, though he was rich, for you
sakes became poor"
Yes, yes; for your sakes! 1t was not on
pleasure excursion that he came, for it wa
all pain. 1t was not on astronomical exploI
alton, for he knew this worli as well befog
he alighted as afterward. 1t was not becaus
he was compelled to come, for he volunteered
1t was not because it was easy, for he l;ue
that it would be thorn, and spike, und hun
ger, and thirst, and vociferation OF angr
nobs. For yeuF bnkesl W1pe away You
ears. To forgive your WTong-doinG.to to coir